Is your little one mad about the movies? You're in luck. This November, young people all over Cambridgeshire can get FREE cinema tickets courtesy of the Into Film Festival.

The festival – the largest youth film festival in the world – runs from November 9 to November 25, with the aim of "captivating young minds and bringing learning to life through the power of film".

Open to schools, colleges, home educators and youth leaders, and aimed at children aged 5 to 19, the festival features a huge variety of film screenings and events, with this year's line-up encompassing blockbusters, adaptations of novels and plays, British and classic films, documentaries, foreign language and world cinema. In short, there's a little something for everyone.

Teaching resources will be available to download from the Into Film Festival website for use at screenings and in the classroom to help people explore the themes of the films they watch, and there will also be autism-friendly screenings for children with additional needs.

Actor, director and Into Film ambassador, Sir Kenneth Branagh commented: "I'm thrilled to support the Into Film Festival. It's an incredible opportunity for young people to experience the cinema and be immersed in a film or a discussion. The fact that they could watch something that they would not necessarily consider seeing on their own - all for free - is a truly magnificent offer.

"I hope that young people and teachers take advantage of the Into Film Festival and come away with a head full of new insights, ideas and an invigorated passion for film."

Highlights of the Into Film Festival 2016 programme include. . .

:: To mark the Roald Dahl centenary, there will be screenings of classic Dahl titles including Matilda, Danny the Champion of the World, James and the Giant Peach and the new Steven Spielberg adaptation of The BFG.

:: To mark Shakespeare's 400th anniversary, there will be a screening of Romeo + Juliet at Vue Cambridge.

:: Screenings in Cambridge, Peterborough and St Neots offer a diverse selection of films for all ages including, The Jungle Book, The Secret Life of Pets, Zootropolis, Ponyu on the Cliff by the Sea, Inside Out, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Suffragette, Carol, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Selma.